After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly licence.
Sun Microsystems will open-source Java, it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said on Tuesday.
Sun Microsystems intends to commence open-sourcing Java by the end of this year and complete the process in 2007, according to the company's executive vice president of software, Rich Green.
Java creator James Gosling this week called Microsoft's decision to support C and C++ on the command line in .NET one of the -biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made".
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